Many speakers forget that people in the audience are not there just to see what’s new. If that were the case, they could get the information from a PDF, your website or the Internet. Audiences want more. They want to be engaged, they want to be inspired. For that to happen, it takes more than a deck of slides; it takes a speaker who knows how to connect.

The ideas contained in the infographic will help you do just that. And, the infographic is linked to a post that goes into greater detail about the ways in which you can improve your presentations. They are as follows:

Hi Craig. Completely agree that making it about the audience is key. Without that, all the rest won’t help.

On infographics, I have seen them done well and I have seen them done poorly. I don’t invest any time in creating them myself, but people frequently send me them to post on the blog. In most cases, I decline. I like the infographic in this post but, like you, I struggled with the title. In fact – full disclosure – when I was communicating with the company by email, I wrote, “I just need to be clear on one thing: the title. When one reads through the infographic, it is not immediately apparent what the 7 ideas are. I had to go through it a few times.”

The seven ways are only evident when one reads the original post that accompanies the infographic, which is why I listed them out and also hyperlinked the infographic to the original post. I agree that the infographic would be if the number “7” were dropped from the title.